Chapter 38 Flashcards
During the 1952 presidential campaign, Republican candidate Dwight Eisenhower declared that he would
to help to end the Korean War.
a. use atomic weapons
b. blockade the China coast and bomb Manchuria
c. open negotiations with Mao Zedong
d. order United Nations troops to invade North Korea
e. personally go to Korea
E
The Supreme Court began to advance the cause of civil rights in the 1950s because
a. the Court was the only branch of government with the Constitutional authority to do so.
b. the courts were dominated by New Deal liberals.
c. President Eisenhower had requested the Court’s assistance.
d. Congress and the presidency had largely abdicated their responsibilities by keeping hands off the issue.
e. the Constitution clearly prohibited any segregation.
D
In the epochal 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of
Education of Topeka, the Supreme Court
a. declared that the concept of separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites was unconstitutional.
b. upheld its earlier decision in Plessy v. Ferguson.
c. rejected desegregation.
d. supported the Declaration of Constitutional Principles issued by Congress.
e. ordered immediate and total integration of all American schools.
A
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC) was an outgrowth of the
a. antiwar movement of the 1960s.
b. black power movement of the 1960s.
c. ban-the-bomb movement of the 1950s.
d. Civil Rights Act of 1957.
e. A sit-in movement launched by young southern blacks
E
Dwight Eisenhower’s policies toward Native
Americans included
a. efforts at tribal preservation.
b. the establishment of tribes as legal entities.
c. incentives for tribes to hold onto their land.
d. a return to the assimilation goals of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887.
e. an emphasis on education and job training for Indians.
D
The Eisenhower-promoted public works project that was far larger and more expensive than anything in Roosevelt’s New Deal was
a. the interstate highway system
b. the Grand Coulee dam project.
c. the St. Lawrence seaway.
d. the airport construction program.
e. the public housing system.
A
As a part of his New Look at foreign policy,
President Eisenhower
a. sought an alliance with China.
b. refused to talk with leaders of the Soviet Union.
c. called for open skies over both the United States and the Soviet Union.
d. sent help to the Hungarian freedom fighters.
e. allied with Israel against the Arab states
C
In 1956, when Hungary revolted against continued domination by the Soviet Union, the United States under Dwight Eisenhower
a. sent money to the rebels.
b. quickly recognized the new Hungarian government.
c. refused to admit any Hungarian refugees.
d. gave only outdated military equipment to the Hungarian freedom fighters.
e. did nothing to help to defeat the communists.
E
The 1955 Geneva Conference
a. unified the two Vietnams.
b. made Ngo Dinh Diem president of Vietnam.
c. called for the two Vietnams to hold national elections within two years.
d. created the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization.
e. established a permanent division of Vietnam.
C
In response to a supposed Soviet threat to Middle Eastern oil, the American Central Intelligence Agency in 1953
a. began seeking alternative sources of energy.
b. staged a coup to overthrow the Iranian government and install Shah Mohammed Reza
Pahlevi as dictator.
c. engaged in sabotage against pro-Soviet governments in the region.
d. developed close cooperation with Israeli intelligence agencies.
e. gathered conclusive evidence of the Soviets= plans to control Egypt.
B
During the 1950s, the Central Intelligence Agency engineered pro-American political coups in both
a. Iran and Guatemala.
b. Iraq and Nicaragua.
c. Lebanon and El Salvador.
d. Libya and Costa Rica.
e. Egypt and Cuba.
A
In response to the launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957,
a. Harry Truman condemned the Republicans for allowing a scientific gap to occur.
b. the federal government began spending millions of dollars to improve American science and language education.
c. the United States spent nearly a decade trying to equal this achievement.
d. the Republican party took responsibility for the fact that the United States had fallen behind the Soviets in this area of scientific discovery.
e. scientists blamed America=s slowness on poor math and science education in the schools.
B
When he took office in 1961, President Kennedy chose to try to stimulate the sluggish economy through
a. a massive foreign-aid program.
b. large-scale government spending programs.
c. a tax cut.
d. reducing expenditures on the space program.
e. a looser monetary policy.
C
Kennedy was often cautious and frustrated in advancing social reform and civil rights legislation because
a. he was looking forward to winning a much larger mandate in the election of 1964.
b. the civil rights movement’s militant demands undercut public support for moderate reform.
c. his own vice president, Lyndon Johnson, lobbied against the legislation behind his back.
d. conservative southern Democrats controlled key
Congressional committees.
e. Republican majorities in the Senate blocked his legislative proposals.
D
President Kennedy’s most bitter confrontation with big business occurred when he
a. raised taxes on corporate business profits.
b. refused to support compensation for American businesses’ lost investments in Cuba.
c. demanded that the American oil industry stop driving up the price of gasoline.
d. forced steel industry leaders to roll back steel price increases.
e. lowered tariff rates to permit more European imports into the United States.
D
